Doumar Quotes & Sayings

Love only the people who deserve you. — Christian Mork

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I decided when I was a kid that I would only go out of the house if I felt good enough to be bothered. Could I be interrupted at dinner? Am I in the mood? If I am, I go out. If I'm not, I don't! So, it's the art of deciding what the truth of your job is, and what you can and cannot handle. You can design your stresses. — John Travolta

What Exile from himself can flee?[a] To zones though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of Life - the Demon Thought.[b] [a] [Compare Horace, Odes, II. xvi. 19, 20. [b] Compare Prior's Solomon, bk. iii. lines 85, 86: 'In the remotest wood and lonely grot Certain to meet that worst of evils - thought.' — George Gordon Byron

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself. — John Steinbeck

If you're not a wreck in this business, you're not around. — Joan Rivers

Do you ever get the feeling that when you show someone your affection for them, you are assaulting them? Like you should probably leave them alone? Your affection, no matter how sincere, does not necessarily mean a damn thing to the person you are giving it to. Love can corner you. When you intrude on someone with your affection, you might find yourself trying to knock a strong door down with your shoulder. Either you break the door or you break yourself. Something almost always gets broken. In my mind it runs like this:
I'm going to like you, whether you like it or not. I'll wear you down until you relent and swallow this big lie I have for you. Don't move. Don't live. I love you. — Henry Rollins

I hate to admit this, but before we had a baby I was kind of weirded out by breastfeeding. It looked strange, and I was always like, 'Look away! Ignore it, ignore the boobs in the room, move along, nothing to see here!' — David Alan Basche

The most satisfactory proof of intellectual strength is to be found in the existence of a power which enables the mind to conquer its prejudices and to correct its own errors — John Ayrton Paris

Women rise up! Speak up. Look up. Within you is all the light the world needs to scare away the darkness that holds it hostage. — Toni Sorenson

Sir Leicester leans back in his chair, and breathlessly ejaculates, Good heaven! — Charles Dickens

This power makes no attempt to discriminate between destructive thoughts and constructive thoughts, that it will urge us to translate into physical reality thoughts of poverty, just as quickly as it will influence us to act upon thoughts of riches. — Napoleon Hill

Our lives don't really belong to us, you see
they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding. — Paul Auster

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people. — Iris Dement